My review of HoudahSpot as seen on MacZOT.com
HoudahSpot (I haven’t yet actually seen anything explaining the name yet) does what Spotlight (in Tiger) doesn’t: presents powerful searching in an understandable interface. To use Spotlight to do the same thing, you must learn arcane strings. I’ve done it in the past and had mixed results. With HoudahSpot, I was able to put together some of the more complicated searches I’ve tried in the past in a fraction of the time and they work. Also the searches are live so you can refine (or unrefine, if you go too far) to really zero in on what you need. All in all, I’m impressed.
NOTE: If you’re seeing this on June 16, 2006 head over to MacZOT, you might be able to get a Free copy of HoudahSpot
Search easily in Tiger, Mac OS X, with HoudahSpot
When I was 9 years old, I stood on the longest line I’d ever seen to see the new movie everyone was talking about. When the word went down the line that Star Wars had sold out, I think my mother was actually relieved. Still, she did try again and I was able to see the movie finally. She took me a total of three times. Later, during the summer, I visited my sister Ann on Martha’s Vinyard where she was living that summer and as we walked by a movie theater, I heard the sounds of light sabers and begged her to take me in to see it. She bought me a ticket and I went in, half-way through the movie and then sat through it again from the beginning. (Continues…)